Synonym: blue, depressing, dismal, gloomy, pensive, sad, wistful. Antonym: cheerful, delightful, gay, happy, merry, pleasant. Similar words: homeland, anchor, lie at anchor, carte blanche, holy, inchoate, scholar, choleric. Meaning: ['melənkɑlɪ /-kəlɪ] 
n. 1. a feeling of thoughtful sadness 2. a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed 3. a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy. adj. 1. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness 2. grave or even gloomy in character.
n. 1. a feeling of thoughtful sadness 2. a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed 3. a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy. adj. 1. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness 2. grave or even gloomy in character. 
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31. Goya struggled with his feelings of deep melancholy.
32. His expressionistic brushwork, scrapings in the paint and blurry edges endow the familiar bright land with an unfamiliar melancholy.
33. Few of them were caused by melancholy to sit staring slackly into the middle distance.
34. By now, a number of younger recruits had arrived from the savage and melancholy ice-world of Inwit.
35. So now Baez, who recently turned 55, has a sense of accomplishment and relief and even some melancholy.
36. The building oozed a melancholy yet defiant air, cornered by an unforgiving landscape with which it refused to make any compromises.
37. Alone on the open desert, I have made up songs of wild, poignant rejoicing and transcendent melancholy.
38. She sang a melancholy torch song with a deep, womanly voice.
39. In a mood of bitter-sweet melancholy, I walked back to the centre of Dublin.
40. He was much more content now, though melancholy about himself and what he'd come to.
41. Being the contrary cuss he was, he did not find this overnight change of ambience entirely melancholy.
42. Then the instrumentalists would take up the melancholy tune themselves and we would see the title card.
43. There were those at that time who cultivated melancholy to give themselves the appearance of profundity.
44. He was a strange man, prone to melancholy and bouts of drinking.
45. A rock group record had replaced the melancholy singers, and a few couples had started to dance.
46. Lights began to go on in the dark houses, and I relished my melancholy to the last drop.
47. If only she could have seen me skulking around at Cliff Top, the very picture of melancholy.
48. De Quincey reported that these endless processions produced in him feelings of deep melancholy and gloom.
49. The Grand Duke's expression slowly changed to one of melancholy.
50. It is in one movement, imbued throughout with profound melancholy, yet breathing a spirit of Viennese romanticism.sentence dictionary
51. The melancholy was as asphyxiating as the soundtrack offence with its cacophony of four-letter obscenities.
52. The scattered fragments of crockery and the aroma of the wasted nectar marked the melancholy wreck of our Christmas cheer.
53. This melancholy contrast brought to our Southern sensibilities a touch of sadness.
54. He thought the remark was melancholy, sadly philosophical, a throwaway line for an aimless afternoon.
55. Years later, I am constantly adjusting my feelings downward to achieve that fine balance of caution and melancholy. 30.
56. Caught in a green translucent wave were two tiny sea-horses facing in opposite directions, one frolicking, the other melancholy.
57. The very notion, however, ran counter to the sodden, melancholy, and yet enduring spirit of the Reach.
58. An unexpected bonus was that the emergency work galvanised Loi out of his melancholy.
59. All four were extraordinarily clever, given to fantasy and melancholy, and impractical to the point of danger.
60. For six weeks after our arrival it rained almost continually and the wind howled melancholy dirges around our chimneys and doors.
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